Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche did the president no favors with his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when he stumbled while trying to describe the women who were seen in a picture with Trump that was in Jeffrey Epstein’s possession, analysts said.
The now-controversial photo was in the big Epstein drop from the Department of Justice on Friday, was yanked from public view hours later, only to reappear again on Sunday after the removal started a firestorm.
Blanche, in his capacity as deputy attorney general, attempted to explain the DOJ’s actions, but only threw more fuel on the fire, claimed “Morning Joe” co—hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
Scarborough first noted that Blanche called what the DOJ is doing with regard to releasing the files of the notorious sex trafficker an act of “transparency.”
“I wrote it down here because this is going to come back,” the MS NOW host said. “And this is a real laugher: ‘This is the most transparent process in U.S. history,’ he says, when it's of course, it's the least transparent.”
“And then, I’m really very concerned for Todd Blanche, because Todd Blanche seemed to suggest that Donald Trump was in a picture of victims, of Epstein victims, when he said, we only took down Donald Trump's picture because we didn't want to expose the faces of victims.”
“Oh my gosh,” Brzezinski blurted.
“Let’s chew on that again," Scarborough continued. “He said they had — why is everybody making such a big deal? We were trying to protect victims of Jeffrey Epstein when we took Donald Trump's picture off the files.”
“I don't know, if I were Donald Trump, I'd be very angry that Todd Blanche accused him of being with Epstein victims when there's no evidence of that whatsoever,” he suggested.
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